2010 - The Year We Make Contact

A belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001 - A Space Odyssey' (1968) - an earlier Arthur C.

Clarke novel. Nine years after the Jupiter voyage of Discovery went mysteriously awry, the Soviet Union and United States team together to launch a salvage operation, despite being on the brink of nuclear war.

The questions to which the crew seek an answer include ascertaining what happened to the ship's computer HAL and discerning the significance of the huge black monolith floating in space near to the stricken craft.